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Tape-slide. Shows how Shakespeare used poetry within the context of his plays, the sources of his major narrative poems, the form and content of his sonnets, the circumstances which may have influenced him...
Professor Harold Brooks questions those views which see Eliot’s poem as one of despair and horror. He indicates the three main planes on which Eliot handles his criticism of modern society, and takes the...
Shot in some of his best loved locations, this programme portrays the life and poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Poems and excerpts from Coleridge’s letters and diaries, are read by Paul Scofield. Covers...
Aims to assist in developing an appreciation of the deeper, more perceptive meaning to be found in haiku, a form of Japanese poetry.
One of a series of audiotaped discussions which show literary criticism as a living, evolving interchange. This discussion is between JC. Salveson of the University of Reading and W. Walsh of Leeds University.
In an interview, Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher M. Grieve) talks about his life and work to another Scottish poet, George Bruce. Between readings of selected excerpts from his poems MacDiarmid reminisces on...
A biography of the poet and dramatist transmitted on the occasion of his centenary. Shows still photographs of various productions of his plays. The narration of the German language version is by Ernst...
The idea behind the film was to set great passages of prose and poetry relevant to the great struggle of World War 2 against scenes of Britain. Quotations are derived from Camden’s ‘Britannia’, Milton,...
Television documentary series in which Poet Laureate Andrew Motion talks to public figures about their favourite poetry and poets. In this episode former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, discusses...
Third in a series of programmes on the art of poetry produced by literary historian J. Isaacs. Samples of Shakespeare’s ‘poetic art’ are read by Douglas Leach.
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